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Summer Is About To Get Even Better!:
So with the full-weight of summer approaching, we revisit a more human side of good-health: How people look in a bathing-suit.
Especially when they get just the right amount of color to highlight their features. -Bikinis don’t hurt either.
And the unfortunate side-effect is all the UV-damage that occurs while achieving that crispy KFC hue.
But if Massachusetts researchers have anything to say about it, that could all be a thing of the past…
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And Now For Something Completely Different:
Somehow in their infinite-power, Wired has managed to wrangle the best doctor ever to answer some health questions.
“The Hangover”-series crazy-man, Ken Jeong!
And although he’s a bit more serious here than in his roles as Mister Chow, or Ben Chang on cult-hit TV-show “Community”, he’s still a lot of fun…
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You Don’t Want To Learn This Lesson The Hard Way:
Now remember to put your sunblock on, boys and girls!
And while you’re at it, go back & read the post on the EWG’s list of the best ones for you.
Here are a few of the 18 painful examples Pleated Jeans rounded up to remind you to do it.
YEOWCH!…
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First They Saved Your Health, Now Your Skin!:
You might remember our previous post on the EWG’s great work on produce safety and pesticides.
If you don’t, The Dirty Dozen with Garrick Dee Tan’s infographics is a good & worthwhile read.
Especially for the addition of The Clean 15, and The Hazardous 3.
Well just in-time for sunny weather, the EWG is at it again for Sunscreens. And their results are pretty surprising…
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DAMMIT!!!
I thought this was going to be a THE cure for normal DHT-based Male-Pattern Baldness.
-But NOooOOOOooo!!! :(
Okay, okay, okay; it’s no less impressive that the patient in question, who had both Plaque-Psoriasis and (just like our old .000001%-er pal John D. Rockefeller) Total Hair-Loss on his entire body, -was cured of Both conditions by the drug-wizardry cooked up by Yale’s scientists.
Not only that but so far…
RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
RRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!…
So, thanks to the research of Keith Cowing over at SpaceRef, we now know that the claims by Ameriscience that NASA had developed antioxidant softgels for the skin were incorrect.
Keith also goes on to note that the doctor whose alleged quotes were circulated is unpaid, uncontactable, works in the Family Practice & Preventive Medicine departments, and the only thing a person with that name ever published on Astro-Nautery was…
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The flavonoids in wine and grapes can protect skin cells from death by chocolate UV radiation, says a study by U. Barcelona and the National Research Council of Spain.
Not sure if this study was funded by the Rioja Vintners Chamber of Commerce, but it does make a certain amount of ~sense-ish.
Some sources are reporting that if you Drink Wine or Eat Grapes, it can help.
Erm, I may have read the glaringly-brief Abstracts incorrectly, but I thought the experiments were not carried out on humans, but…
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